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词汇 bioprospecting
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Definition of bioprospecting in English:

bioprospecting

noun
mass noun
  • The search for plant and animal species from which medicinal drugs and other commercially valuable compounds can be obtained.

    生物(资源)勘探

    Example sentencesExamples
    • While traditional communities worldwide struggle to catch up with the implications of bioprospecting and biopiracy, technological advances are further removing them from the equation.
    • I asked Doctor Jon Copley from the Southhampton Oceanography Centre, about some of the more unusual outcomes of bioprospecting.
    • Moreover, new problems are emerging from sources such as offshore aquaculture, wind energy development, bioprospecting, and ever-deeper oil and gas exploration.
    • If natural compounds are likely to provide substantial breakthroughs, bioprospecting should provide for most of this benefit, but bioprospecting itself does not require widescale preservation of biodiversity in the wild.
    • Wilson is equally interesting on the subject of bioprospecting.
    • Here are the seeds of the contemporary bioprospecting and biotechnology industries.
    • Many pharmaceutical companies are currently engaged in bioprospecting, which consists of testing plant species for potentially useful compounds, sometimes signing agreements with national governments for permission.
    • Conservationists, however, say the challenge is to design models for bioprospecting that link such discoveries to conservation.
    • The search for biologically active natural products is sometimes referred to as biodiversity prospecting or bioprospecting.
    • It oversees the permits and insures that no harm results from bioprospecting.
    • Most people believe that bioprospecting is limited to pharmaceuticals, but it isn't.
    • Such concerns notwithstanding, some insist that potential gains from bioprospecting can motivate poor countries to preserve their biological diversity.
    • The book is both an impassioned appeal and a guide to measures that can be taken to save the planet, such as the cessation of logging in old-growth forests and the creation of jobs in conservation and bioprospecting.
    • Gene patenting and bioprospecting are aimed not only at the plants that native peoples have used and nurtured throughout centuries but also at the genes of those peoples themselves.
    • It requires a good idea of where to go searching, patience and a dose of good luck, but with bioprospecting the ultimate prize is perhaps more valuable than gold.
    • The claims of biopiracy were also meritless, resting on a stupid claim that bioprospecting was illegitimate unless all indigenous communities in a region approve it.
    • Until now, bioprospecting has proceeded largely by private contractual arrangement.

Derivatives

  • bioprospector

  • nounˈbʌɪə(ʊ)prəˌspɛktəˌbaɪoʊˈprɑspɛktər
    • A person who searches for plant and animal species from which medicinal drugs and other commercially valuable compounds can be obtained.

      生物(资源)勘探

      marine bioprospectors are searching under the seas for new riches
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Critics contend, however, that in negotiations between bioprospectors and local people - especially indigenous groups the playing field is far from level.
      • There were bioprospectors among us in Kamchatka.
      • Today bioprospectors working for biotech firms, pharmaceutical and agribusiness giants are off to the far corners of the earth hoping to come back with the goods.

Origin

1990s: from bio(diversity) prospecting.

Definition of bioprospecting in US English:

bioprospecting

nounˌbīōˈpräspektiNG
  • The search for plant and animal species from which medicinal drugs and other commercially valuable compounds can be obtained.

    生物(资源)勘探

    Example sentencesExamples
    • While traditional communities worldwide struggle to catch up with the implications of bioprospecting and biopiracy, technological advances are further removing them from the equation.
    • Until now, bioprospecting has proceeded largely by private contractual arrangement.
    • The book is both an impassioned appeal and a guide to measures that can be taken to save the planet, such as the cessation of logging in old-growth forests and the creation of jobs in conservation and bioprospecting.
    • Such concerns notwithstanding, some insist that potential gains from bioprospecting can motivate poor countries to preserve their biological diversity.
    • Most people believe that bioprospecting is limited to pharmaceuticals, but it isn't.
    • Many pharmaceutical companies are currently engaged in bioprospecting, which consists of testing plant species for potentially useful compounds, sometimes signing agreements with national governments for permission.
    • It requires a good idea of where to go searching, patience and a dose of good luck, but with bioprospecting the ultimate prize is perhaps more valuable than gold.
    • Moreover, new problems are emerging from sources such as offshore aquaculture, wind energy development, bioprospecting, and ever-deeper oil and gas exploration.
    • Wilson is equally interesting on the subject of bioprospecting.
    • It oversees the permits and insures that no harm results from bioprospecting.
    • Here are the seeds of the contemporary bioprospecting and biotechnology industries.
    • The claims of biopiracy were also meritless, resting on a stupid claim that bioprospecting was illegitimate unless all indigenous communities in a region approve it.
    • I asked Doctor Jon Copley from the Southhampton Oceanography Centre, about some of the more unusual outcomes of bioprospecting.
    • If natural compounds are likely to provide substantial breakthroughs, bioprospecting should provide for most of this benefit, but bioprospecting itself does not require widescale preservation of biodiversity in the wild.
    • Gene patenting and bioprospecting are aimed not only at the plants that native peoples have used and nurtured throughout centuries but also at the genes of those peoples themselves.
    • The search for biologically active natural products is sometimes referred to as biodiversity prospecting or bioprospecting.
    • Conservationists, however, say the challenge is to design models for bioprospecting that link such discoveries to conservation.

Origin

1990s: from bio(diversity) prospecting.

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